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Article: NRC Official Recalls Government Response to Three Mile Island Crisis.
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- York Daily Record (York, PA)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2004
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Mar. 27--By the time officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's headquarters in Bethesda, Md., learned about the problem at Three Mile Island, the accident was already in its fourth hour.
The plant called the regulatory office in King of Prussia and left a message, said Harold Denton, the nuclear regulatory official President Jimmy Carter personally sent to Dauphin County.
That message wasn't received until 8 a.m. that Wednesday, March 28, 1979.
"It didn't sound like a crisis at the time," Denton said.
Twenty-five years later, the partial meltdown at TMI is considered the worst nuclear disaster in American history. Key figures ...